Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 478

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DANIEL

An unexpected lead came quietly, slipped between other data like it didn’t want to be noticed.

I was sitting in my office long past midnight, lights off, only the screen in front of me glowing. Cole stood near the window, arms crossed, watching the city below. Neither of us had spoken in several minutes.

Then the alert came in.

I didn’t react right away. I’d learned not to. Too many false hopes had trained my body to stay still until my mind caught up.

I read it once. Then again,

Medical logistics. Southern airspace. A private skyscraper registered under a shell corporation that had changed names three times in two years. Restricted access. Internal clinic. Recent activity spike.

My chest tightened.

“This one’s different,” Cole said quietly, reading my face instead of the screen.

“I know,” I replied.

I pulled up the secondary files. Transfer schedules. Power consumption. Elevator overrides. It wasn’t sloppy. Whoever ran the place knew how to stay off official routes. But they weren’t perfect.

“They’re hiding something,” Cole said.

“Someone,” I corrected.

I zoomed in on the medical data. The timestamps lined up with everything we knew. Accelerated care. Specialized equipment. Constant monitoring.

“She’s alive,” I said.

The words felt dangerous leaving my mouth, like saying them might break whatever fragile truth held them together.

Cole exhaled slowly. “You’re sure?”

I nodded. “As sure as I can be without seeing her.”

We didn’t celebrate. We didn’t smile. We both knew what came next was harder than the search.

I stood and grabbed my jacket. “Get the vehicle ready. No calls. No alerts.”

Cole hesitated. “Not even PAC?”

“No one,” I said. “If this is real, we don’t widen the circle.”

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He nodded and moved.

Finished

The drive was silent. The city gave way to controlled zones and private districts, places where rules bent quietly for the right money. The building came into view after a long stretch of road. Tall. Clean. Unmarked. Too clean.

“That’s it,” Cole said.

I slowed the car and parked two blocks away. We sat there, watching.

Security rotated every six minutes. Facial scanners at the main entrance. Two underground access points. One helipad.

“She’s up high,” Cole said. “Penthouse levels.”

“I know,” I replied.

I closed my eyes briefly. I could feel it. Not instinct. Pattern. The way things fit when they finally made

sense.

“She’s here,” I said again, softer.

Cole looked at me. “Finding her was the easy part.”

I opened the door. “We’re not rushing this.”

We circled the building on foot, staying in blind spots, mapping cameras and patrols. Everything was layered. Physical security. Digital locks. Wolves on rotation, not just human guards.

“They’re expecting trouble,” Cole muttered.

“Or they’re protecting something valuable,” I said.

We reached a service alley and stopped.

“This place isn’t meant to be broken into,” Cole said. “It’s meant to be entered.”

I nodded. “Which means someone inside controls the flow.”

I pulled out my phone and checked the internal schematics again. “There’s a maintenance corridor here. Old. Still active, but barely used.”

Cole frowned. “That’s suicide if it’s watched.”

“If,” I said.

We waited. Ten minutes. Twenty.

Nothing.

“No movement,” Cole said.

“Because they don’t think anyone knows,” I replied.

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雞

I leaned against the wall, staring up at the building. Somewhere inside, Amy was breathing. Thinking. Waiting. Maybe hurting. Maybe fighting in ways I couldn’t sec.

1 clenched my jaw.

“We can’t just grab her and run,” Cole said. “Even if we get in, we won’t get out clean.”

“I know,” I said.

“And if alarms go off-”

“They’ll move her,” I finished. “Or worse.”

Silence stretched between us.

“So what’s the plan?” Cole asked.

I didn’t answer right away.

“The problem isn’t finding her,” I said finally. “It’s that they want us to try.”

Cole looked at me sharply. “You think this is bait?”

ink it’s controlled exposure,” I said. “Enough for someone sharp to notice. Not enough for a crowd.”

d you’re the someone,” he said.

Yes,” I replied. “Which means they’re watching how I react.”

Cole ran a hand over his face. “So what do we do?”

I looked at the building again. Counted floors. Cameras. Guards.

“We don’t go in yet,” I said.

He stared at me. “Daniel-”

“We confirm patterns,” I continued. “Shift changes. Internal movement. Who comes and goes. We learn who’s important and who’s replaceable.”

“And Amy?” he asked.

My chest tightened again. “We don’t make her situation worse by being reckless.”

Cole nodded slowly. “You’re thinking long.”

“I have to,” I said. “If we fail once, she disappears.”

We stayed there until dawn.

I didn’t sleep after that night. I didn’t pretend I could.

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By the second day, the pattern was clear. Shift overlaps were tight, but there was a gap during internal medical rotations. Not long. Eight minutes at most. The kind of gap no one worried about because nothing ever went wrong there.

That was our opening.

Cole leaned over the console inside the van, eyes fixed on the live feed we’d patched together from borrowed access points and blind cameras. “If we miss it, we walk away,” he said.

“I know,” I replied.

“And if alarms trigger-”

“We abort

“No hero moves.”

econd. “You’re calmer than I expected.”

. “There’s a difference.”

2:14, the corridor cleared.

I said.

moved fast, not running, not hesitatio easured. The first lock opened with pulse steady but loud in my ears.

“No alerts,” Cole whispered.

“Keep moving.”

We entered the service opened, the air felt di

“This is it.” Cole

The hallway

ce uniforms. Tool cases. Heads down. Every step e slipped in earlier. The second took longer, my

up in silence. Floors passed without sound. When the doors olled. Too controlled.

1. ed. One guard at the far end, back turned, checking a tablet.

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